Key takeaways:
- A side-by-side comparison of Solid Earth’s paper-based job bid and a digital estimation bid in Bluebeam Revu yielded an oversight, which avoided a $50,000-60,000 loss on their first project using Revu
- Using Revu for takeoffs has more than tripled the company’s standard estimation output
- Solid Earth Civil Constructors has now standardized an all-digital estimation process in Revu, getting rid of paper for estimations along with the costs and maintenance of that process
Solid Earth Civil Constructors Senior Estimator Don Peters has been estimating for nearly three decades. While a digitizer scale and straight ruler have long been his tools of the trade, an ultimatum for digital bid submissions from a significant potential client forced Peters to transform his previously paper-based estimation process. “There was a team of estimators from the client in this room and they could all hear the conversation. I was by myself and it was the biggest call to reality. I thought to myself, ‘We need to make a move; we need to make a change now.’” Within three days after receiving the recommendation from a general contractor, Solid Earth purchased Bluebeam Revu, a project efficiency and collaboration solution tailor built for the AEC industry, trusted by over 1.3 million design and construction professionals worldwide to implement a digital estimation process. W